The Netflix signature series has achieved a feat that only the popular squid game has achieved before.
Stranger Things has achieved what only another program has ever managed to do on Netflix.
The fourth season of the supernatural series has just surpassed one billion viewing hours, a feat just the popular Korean drama. Squid game has previously managed.
Strange things Volume 4 has now recorded 1.15 billion hours of viewing in the first 28 days since launch. The last two episodes of the season premiered last Friday and that alone has been seen for 301.2 million hours in its first three days.
Of course, the nine episodes of this recent season were large, with the finale at two hours and 22 minutes. It’s a lot of minutes compared to, say, a six-chapter comedy with 28-minute chapters.
Still, the fair is fair and cannot be denied Strange things The fourth season has captured the attention, love and obsessive tendencies of its fans in a way we haven’t seen since the first season.
The popularity of the series has even caused Kate Bush’s 1985 hit “Running Up That Hill” to return to the charts after being heavily featured in a mid-season episode.
Fan speculation and theories around the finale even caused Netflix to crash briefly in Australia in the moments following the release of episodes eight and nine. The DownDetector outage detection website reported an increase in reported problems just after 5pm AEST on Friday, when the episodes fell.
The fourth season sees Eleven and his fellow monster fighters face the macabre Vecna, while the secrets of the past continue to haunt the present.
Created by the Duffer brothers, Strange thingsThe combination of horror, teen drama and nostalgia of the 80s has secured its place in the canon of pop culture. There is one more season left: the series will end after the fifth season.
Stranger Things stars Millie Bobby Brown, Winona Ryder, Joe Keery, Maya Hawke, David Harbor, Sadie Sink, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin and Finn Wolfhard.
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